WOW!!!!! GREAT GREAT GREAT post Dan!
My purpose, help people become more effective!
Effectiveness Activator cool name huh?
Just great stuff.
Biggest thing for me is my life is pretty much what I focus on.
Starts with Why? Do I have something driving me worth dying for?
If not if I want to be effective I better get a why that important to me, if not the first sign of challenge will stop me.
Next create absolute CERTAINTY! I will persist until I succeed.
Then four areas to work on
1. Potential
2. Actions
3.Results
4. Reinforces Core Beliefs
Great stuff today Dan,
Thanks,
SP back to creating EPIC CERTAINTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You know Dan it is worth mentioning most people live lives of quiet desperation.
In reality, in the real world this works for people. This being unfulfilled and not doing anything about it. Sad yes, but they get a payoff, we all do from the choices we choose.
It is ONLY when one becomes sick and tired of being sick and tired are they willing to go to any length for different, at that point anything DIFFERENT.
That is where I come in to help them understand the levers to activate having a more effective life! Piece of cake at that point! When we are beaten, we become willing.
On purpose, on fire, fully alive and at the end……all used up!!!!
That is what I am talking about, turn around kiss myself!!!!
A never ending supply of folks working their way to sick and tired of being sick and tired!
Cool when they are ready, I am here to help them activate their lives. Their inner coolness has been waiting on them all along!!!! God don’t make no junk!!!! Never has, never will! God is cool like that!!!!
SP
EA

In the last few days, I’ve been reminded of a task I used to do in my first job, on a pig farm. In order to look busy, it was suggested to me to go and sweep dust, so that if the boss was looking for me, it would like I’ve very busy, but actually not achieving much.

I’m sad to say that decades later, and now in the corporate world, I still sweep dust.

Today’s article from you has helped to re-evaluate what I’m really doing….. thanks!

Okay, Dan. I’ve found the secret to your success. I’ve learned how you “make things better.” While it takes me 10 million words to get my message across, your genius is that you can “make things better” in just a few brief sentences, yet beautifully pragmatic and thought-provoking insights housed in leadership context and loaded with Einstein-like work, play, and even fun content.

Albert Einstein had nothing to prove. He felt no need to be as “chatty” as he could have been with his knowledge. It wasn’t important to him to talk to everyone he met and talk over their heads to demonstrate his IQ. Instead, he learned the value and art of
noblesse oblige: Asking others questions, listening, being quiet, and extending respect. This was his way of getting others involved and making them feel better.

This has been something that I’ve been working on my whole life. Not that I don’t do things with purpose…but when there’s a lull I still have to fill that with doings and busyness, and when I don’t fill it, which sometimes I do intentionally, I feel guilty. My whole family is like that! Thanks for this important reminder. I like your purpose: make things better and then asking yourself at the end of the day what you made better…
Diana

Just got out of a meeting where we were talked about jump-starting a project that we’ve struggled with consistently in the past. It’s something we think we’re supposed to do but don’t have a lot of motivation to make it successful. Because of the reminder to be purposeful, I asked “Do we know the WHY behind this project?” We just looked around the room at each other and then I suggested that we not resurrect the project until we are clear on our WHY for it. Thanks for contributing to today’s meeting!!

I was not comfortable with how this statement was used “Don’t waste time sitting under a tree contemplating the meaning of your navel. Just choose a purpose for a day.”
I am certain you would agree that there is a time for reflection and pondering.
I wonder if a better way to say it may have been to acknowledge “while contemplation has its place, action still needs to be pursued, in fact even in contemplation there is action or purpose such as understanding some principle or someone better”.
By the way, I really enjoyed the discussion you had about One Word!
Thanks!!